Intransitive, transitive, causative forms, past and non-past tenses (there was no future tense in Old Tamil), participal and verbal nouns, adjectival participles and the infinitive are found in the language of the inscriptions.

Moreover, nouns express sorts of things, verbs and participles are tensed, pronouns are either demonstrative or relative.

The end of the previous sentence itself contains an absolute clause with the participle being as its verb.